William M. Connolley
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November 14, 2012
Go visit; its at climatedialogue.org. And Bart is involved, so it is at least promising. On the other hand the About Page says it exists because the Dutch Parliament... asked the government ‘to also involve climate skeptics in future studies on climate change’. That's pol-speak, therefore stupid…
November 13, 2012
Well, he should stop eating so many pies then, no?
More seriously, how about saying instead, "well we don't like it, but its the law, and we believe in the rule of law". I'm with that evil right-wing bastard Timmy.
Refs
* Abu Qatada release: Cameron 'fed up'
November 12, 2012
There's a nice paper out by Holland and Kwok, attributing much of the somewhat-hard-to-understand change in Antarctic sea ice to changes in wind forcing. The growth in Antarctic sea ice, although much smaller than the decrease in the Arctic, is still a bit embarassing; it would be much tidier if…
November 11, 2012
From The Olde Dayes: 2001, Lammas Land:
And Daniel, also in Lammas Land:
Not a reflection, but from the same times:
And not from those times, but a reflection:
From February 2002, one I like because its near home:
November 9, 2012
Well no, of course not. But since its popped up on wiki I suppose it needs discussion (which is, astonishingly, what is currently happening on wiki, rather than a flame war; how novel).
"We are probably entering a new ice age right now. However, we're not noticing it due to the effects of carbon…
November 7, 2012
Obama wins.
As election day drew closer it became clearer to me that, whatever Obama's flaws, I did want him to win. You can't have someone who habitually lies about his marathon times as vice-POTUS, and I agree fairly well with the Economist on Romney, and overall America could do better than…
November 1, 2012
Or so says Bloomberg (h/t Tamino and TP). And they should know? Well, maybe not; I'll wait for something more definitive, perhaps from RC. But maybe indicative of how opinion is shifting, at least this week. As I've said before (but can't find now) people - the great unwashed masses I mean - are…
October 31, 2012
Parochial stuff: I reported before that Axing the British Antarctic Survey would mean the end of Scott’s legacy?, but it looks like MPs say No:
Chair of the Science and Technology Committee, Andrew Miller MP, said:
My Committee has considered the process undertaken to merge British Antarctic Survey…
October 27, 2012
Which is a shame, because I've defended him in the past. But then he did go Emeritus in 2011 so perhaps this is all to be expected.
Its not terribly exciting I'm afraid. There is a piece of tat in the Euresis Journal, whatever that is, called Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer…
October 25, 2012
To Amsterdam, for the marathon. In case you've been wondering why its been quiet around here. 3:55, since you ask.
I know I still haven't written the sea ice post. But I will; and isn't it nice that they don't all come at once?
I'm reading Atlas Shrugged. Yes, I know Rand is a wacko. And I know…
October 17, 2012
[Guest post by John Mashey]
This is a second follow-up to the original falsification, flat-earth maps and dog astrology. Flat-earth is discussed here in More use and abuse of IPCC 1990 fig 7.1(c). This post explores the other topic:
David Deming, "dog astrology journal" and then Jon Overpeck…
October 17, 2012
Eli has the details.
Coming soon "Addendum: The Warren Commission" - in which they conclude that Kennedy committed suicide.
October 16, 2012
Or Controversial US businessman's iron fertilisation off west coast of Canada contravenes two UN conventions, says the Graun (h/t Timmy).
This is the same bloke who was behind the failed Planktos stuff. If you're deceptive you might call him an environmentalist - but "chancer" would seem closer to…
October 10, 2012
Continuing vaguely along the theme of use and abuse of IPCC 1990 fig 7.1(c), its worth noting explicitly the worship of Hubert Lamb by some of the denialists. I don't think I need to repeat what is said there, but make sure you read the comments, especially those from Willard, and me of course.…
October 10, 2012
I remember old sci-fi stories, where the colony ship would take generations to turn up in a new system, they'd take a brief look from orbit, land, and get overwhelmed by monsters / bacteria / natives / whatever exciting thing the author had thought up. And the obvious question was always: well,…
October 8, 2012
[Guest post by John Mashey]
This is a follow-up to the original falsification, flat-earth maps and dog astrology journal @ STW or cleaner version by Neverending Audit. It originally was a comment to be attached to WMC's Attacked! or WUWT: taking incompetence to a whole new level.
Introduction
The…
October 4, 2012
A somewhat unfair title; the person in question is Marcel Leroux and the "death" is the deletion of his wiki page. The "sales" is his wacko views on GW. I don't think ML is particularly interesting - wiki certainly thought not - but perhaps the way wiki deals with minor characters is.
Background:…
October 4, 2012
Since we're on fig 7.1.c, I was browsing around for google images and came across the following:
Well, that's certainly odd. The pic is a copy (stolen with no attribution, are you surprised?) of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ipcc7.1-mann-moberg-manley.png]] which I uploaded to wiki (once…
October 1, 2012
h/t to JM for More on the Iconography of IPCC 1990 Figure 7 - scroll down for the breathless prose.
First the background: why does anyone care about figure 7.1.c of the IPCC '90 report? Well, if you're a denialist you care, because it represents the true uncorrupted state of climate science before…
October 1, 2012
Continuing the theme of "how not to edit wikipedia" I bring you
Anouncement [sic] of damnation of wiki: That because in conspiracy of a group of Darwinists the encycopledia in practical effect surpresses [sic] freedom of expression, I hereby damn the encyclopedia.
from User:Syamsu [1]. Amusingly,…
September 30, 2012
Says the Graun. If you agree you can sign the petition. The issue is that "On June 7th 2012, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) announced that there is a strong strategic case for the merger of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) to take place…
September 25, 2012
It am de report ob de House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, Second Report of Session 2012–13, Volume I: Report, together with formal
minutes, oral and written evidence. And things like Arctic Methane Emergency Group? refer.
I don't really have much to say, because Geoengineering Politics…
September 18, 2012
h/t WTD. The Graun says
Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years
and so on. Its all sourced to "an email to the Guardian" which unfortunately they don't reproduce. Now is the time to mention the Arctic Methane Emergency Group of which Wadhams is a member, to his discredit…
September 17, 2012
More misc, under a thin veneer.
I've been rowing again: the Boston Marathon.
For fans of short-sellers-are-all-irredeemably-evil brigade, try Bronte.
Our head isn't too impressed with todays announced shake-up of the exam system: my heart sinks at the prospect of even more time spent on debating…
September 15, 2012
It is early autumn, so an old man's thoughts turn to his bees. Sadly neglected again, I wonder what they are up to? Have they produced a good honey harvest or - more likely given the rather unfortunate summer here - have they just survived? Happily I have some Apistan all saved up, and its,…
September 13, 2012
Good grief of course people are mocking Islam, if Islam leads to this kind of stupidity. They are pretty well mocking themselves. Bit of a shame they need to kill people to do it.
Bozos.
(Incidentally, did you know that Depictions of Muhammad are only mostly [*] forbidden (in those versions of…
September 13, 2012
Ah, superb.
WATTS EXPLAINS WHY LEWANDOWSKY PAPER ON CONSPIRACY THEORIES IS WRONG: ITS A CONSPIRACY BETWEEN JOHN COOK AND THE PROF
Sorry for the all-caps, I couldn't be bothered to re-type it without.
September 12, 2012
I almost gave up subscribing to WUWT, but juuust about frequently enough something interesting comes up; and of course its a convenient way of keeping up with the denialosphere. So today I find A review of the seminar ‘The contrarian discourse in the blogosphere–what are blogs good for anyway?’…
September 11, 2012
I've been sniffy about CCS before (its just not economic) but as about the only way to get CO2 out of the atmosphere whilst letting us continue burning fossil fuels in our merry thoughtless way it inevitably appeals to the BAU crowd. David Hone reports on a A CCS project for Canada which is at base…
September 7, 2012
I'm not quite sure what it is. It is something like a houseleek - click on the tiny pic of its base for a bigger view, or here for a fuller view. I bought it in a village sale a few years back and it has sat outside come sun, rain and drought. This is the first year it has flowered. It reminds…